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Are There Any Medications That Can Make Fibroids Worse?

Are There Any Medications That Can Make Fibroids Worse? (0:31)

The only thing that causes fibroids to worsen are hormones says John Lipman, MD, interventional radiologist. In this video, he explains that while birth control pills may lighten your periods, the hormones can sometimes make fibroids worse.

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The only things in general that will cause fibroids to worsen are hormones and they so it's kind of a double edge sword, when someone is on a birth control pill, it does widen there flow temporary. But all the while its stimulating fibroid growth and so often times just see women in that will be on birth control pills, and they work for three months, or six months or so, but all the while the fibroids are growing under that hormonal stimulation and then it overwhelms the ability for us to work any further.